005

A four-part Arabic crime-romance thriller by Saudi novelist Shahd Qurban, published by Markaz al-Adab al-Arabi (مركز الأدب العربي للنشر والتوزيع). Ruby Smith's quiet life ends when she is drawn into a world of contract killers and criminal families, and into the orbit of the assassin known only by the code 005. The series runs 005 (2024), ستوكهولم / Stockholm (2025), البارون / The Baron (2025) and الياقوت / al-Yaqut (2026), which closes the story.